Arlaina Tibensky is the author of the novel And Then Things Fall Apart (Simon & Schuster). Her short stories and nonfiction have appeared in One Story, SmokeLong Quarterly, Reckon Review, The Dodge Magazine, Stanchion, Thimble Lit, @TheKeepThings, The Razor, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Madison Review, The Dinner Party Download, Inkwell, Thimble Lit, Literary Mama, The New York Times and New Stories from the Midwest, 2018.

 

She has received "The Best of the Net," "Best Small Fictions," and Pushcart nominations for her flash fiction. She holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University.​

 

She has been recognized by the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, The New Jersey State Council for the Arts, and the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance.

 

And Things Fall Apart, her YA novel about a girl obsessed with Sylvia Plath, was a Junior Library Guild Selection and an ALA/YALSA reader's choice nomination.

 

She is working, as ever, on a new novel.  It's coming along nicely, thank you for asking.

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She also is a manuscript editor, and if you're interested in hiring her, you can learn how here.

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Get to know Arlaina...

Read interviews with The Center for Fiction, Literary Mama, Short Story Today, One Story, Poets & Writers - Writers Recommend, and SmokeLong Quarterly.